Strategic planning attempts to answer the questions:
Where are we right now?
Where do we want to be in the future?
What strategies will we need to implement to get there?
What internal and external forces are operating that will hinder or help to achieve our long-term goals?
Simply put, strategic planning determines where an organization is going over the next several years, how it’s going to get there and how it’ll know whether it got there or not. Quite often, the organization already knows much of what will go into the strategic plan. However, development of the strategic plan greatly helps to clarify the organization’s plans and ensures that key leaders are “all on the same page”. Far more important than the strategic plan document, is the planning process itself. There are a variety of perspectives about strategic planning and a variety of approaches used in the strategic planning process.
This workshop is designed to produce a disciplined effort that will generate fundamental decisions and actions that will shape and guide what the organization is, what it does, and why it does it, with a focus on goals for the future.